Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were rusticated like naughty undergraduates to remote provinces — Molotov as ambassador to Ulan Bator , Malenkov to run a power station , Kaganovich to run a cement works , while Marshals Zhukov and Bulganin in due course followed them into retirement . |
| 2 | The big four have asked all Japanese corporations with equity-financing plans to postpone them for the time being . |
| 3 | I shall describe these approaches as ideal types , but in each case illustrate them by reference to the work of one or another theologian . |
| 4 | Look out for anyone standing around on their own , and if possible try to involve them in what you are doing . |
| 5 | If possible try to frame them in a dramatic way — because this is a further pointer for the children showing how you are going to work together . |
| 6 | The wide , dry eyes followed them from the kitchen as they took their leave . |
| 7 | D'Arcy spent the first hour of the morning arranging for a private aircraft to fly them from le Bourget . |
| 8 | Obviously all the planets that we see orbiting the sun must be travelling at exactly the right speed to keep them in their orbits , or we would n't see them there because they would n't be there ! |
| 9 | She was not so lucky with Benton , who sprang up and crashed into her , his arms locking around her waist , their combined momentum slamming them against the door . |
| 10 | Retirement combines these two aspects of companionship , on the one hand an increasing rate of loss , and on the other , less social opportunity to replace them through the place of work . |
| 11 | Many librarians , especially in Hertfordshire , remedied their lack by attending Garnett College for a one-year course preparing them as teachers in further education . |
| 12 | A panel of medical and scientific experts based them on how likely it was that cancer had been caused by the victim 's working conditions . |
| 13 | ( His introduction of lime juice ( and hence vitamin C ) into the sailors ' daily rations cured them of scurvy and gained for the British tars the nickname of ‘ limeys ’ . ) |
| 14 | In the village , mothers told their children this story to warn them to be careful when they went down to the river . |
| 15 | The political implication is that blacks should be self-assertive and proud of their black identity and not rely on well-meaning attempts to assimilate them into white society . |
| 16 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 17 | We have also had support from our colleagues in Brussels ( see article on page 21 of this issue ) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for taking the lead and to appeal to Johnson Matthey sites around the world to take up the challenge . |
| 18 | This case reduces them to a single principle , the ‘ neighbour principle ’ , which emerges as part of the ratio decidendi of the case . |
| 19 | At noon , the exhausted Pack gathered together and Brown Owl led them to a shady area . |
| 20 | Corbett looked into her harassed face and fearful eyes and , digging into his purse , drew out some coins handed them to her . |
| 21 | The projects focus on maintaining and protecting the species ' habitats , and in some cases establishing them in new habitats . |
| 22 | The word ‘ mothering ’ is sexist in many contexts because it reinforces the ‘ natural ’ connection of women with children and childcare — a connection that feminists have criticised , since under our present social arrangements it has the entirely sexist consequences of defining non-mothers as non-women , restricting women 's opportunities to do other things if they wish , exploiting their unpaid labour and in some cases causing them to be seen as less important than the children they give birth to . |
| 23 | Legal and natural persons are denied access to most international fora ; exclusionary rules prevent them from being parties , interveners , or even witnesses in what they may see as their own claims . |
| 24 | I only hope that the civic authorities have them under better control than they seem to be here . |
| 25 | Some authorities subdivide them into three types — the down-awn hairs , the awn hairs and the guard-awn hairs — but these subtle distinctions are of little value . |
| 26 | The legs are oleo-pneumatic ; small Schrader-type valves enable them to be kept to the correct pressure . |
| 27 | Kate 's voice was full of warm concern as though some conspiracy held them near each other . |
| 28 | Some people allow this fear to block them from forming close relationships of any kind ; while others face the challenge of deep intimacy despite their fears . |
| 29 | But , while these points may be reasonable , and some of them may be true , this attempt to embed them in a general theory or schema seems unhelpful . |
| 30 | The tendency to render horrific incidents of this sort into funny tales or ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( Dingwall 1977 ) , told ritualistically within the occupational culture of the station , is a further attempt to strip them of their emotional hold . |